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   From: mars1933@hotmail.com   
      
   By Walter Ruthard   
      
      I myself was brought up in a small village in the southwest of   
   Germany. In 1939, when the war broke out, we left for the less exposed   
   Odenwald area until the possible danger of a French invasion had   
   passed. Shortly after that my father was transferred to the Ruhr   
   region. He as requested work as a foreman for the Mauser arms factory.   
   The government, true to their claims to be national and socialist,   
   took their promises seriously and provided young people starting a   
   family, as well as those who already had children, with affordable   
   housing. The first child brought a reduction of the mortgage by 25   
   percent, and when the fourth child arrived the mortgage was no more.   
   My parents already had four children then and thus were eligible for a   
   free newly built house from the government.   
      
    This was but one of the many programs the government established in   
   order to improve the quality of life for its citizens..   
      
     Then there was the "Kinderlandverschickung" program. It was started   
   before the war and enabled mothers in need of recreation to spend some   
   time in rural settings together with their children..   
      
    Another very popular social program of the government was "Kraft   
   durch Freude" (strength through joy). Here deserving workers could   
   take all-inclusive tours on luxury liners that were built especially   
   for this purpose. On these ships there was only one class and   
   everybody was treated the same. They visited the Azores and   
   Spitsbergen among other places. Those ships were not allowed to dock   
   in and English port however. The reason was that the British   
   government did not want it's citizens to see what it also could have   
   done for them..   
      
     The most misinterpreted program in Germany was the so-called   
   "Lebensborn". It was the exact opposite of what people are made to   
   believe it was, or should I say, of what people like to believe..  The   
   Lebensborn was the institution to help unwed mothers who did not know   
   where to turn for help. They were taken care of during their   
   pregnancies and afterward as well. This was the Lebensborn, and any   
   other interpretation is plain hogwash..   
      
     My father was able to buy not one but three guns plus two pistols,   
   together with plenty of ammunition. All it took him was proof that he   
   was indeed a German citizen without a criminal record. Then in 1945,   
   when the French "liberated" us, they disarmed him. I know that he was   
   not  the only one to have guns at home, because I saw the many, many   
   arms that were handed over to the French, and this was in a very small   
   village..   
      
   Then, after the war was over, we had our first experience with a real   
   democracy. The French introduced it and gave us some shining examples;   
   one was that the lived off the country and stole everything which   
   wasn't nailed down..   
      
    It was not until many years later that I learned that Hitler held at   
   least five plebiscites during the first half of his rule. In   
   democratic Germany, from 1945 until today there has never been  a   
   plebiscite.   
      
    There were foreign workers employed in Germany during WWII. I knew   
   one of them. He worked on a farm and was treated exactly like the son   
   who was in the army. After the war he stayed on and married the   
   daughter of the house. He was a prisoner of war from Poland and I   
   never saw him guarded by any policeman. This is how foreigners were   
   treated in Germany. They earned the same wages as the Germans, they   
   took part in the social insurance program, had paid-for holidays   
   including free train fares, and many came back with friends who also   
   wanted to work for these "horrible" Germans. Today they are called   
   slave laborer.   
      
    Not everyone was entitled to go on to a university. Only good marks   
   and above-average performance in schools qualified. But good   
   performers were promoted with all means available. Today we are much   
   more democratic; everyone is entitled to a university education and if   
   the parents are wealthy enough, the son or daughter can study until   
   they are 35..   
      
    Germany was also the country to introduce, in 1933, the first-ever   
   comprehensive animal protection law. Farm animals had to be kept in   
   strictly natural environments and no animal factories were allowed. Of   
   course, no testing of products on animals was permitted, and no kosher   
   slaughter.   
      
     If new industrial facilities were built they had to conform to the   
   highest standards with adequate lighting and air inside, canteens   
   where the workers were served nutritious meals at affordable prices,   
   and beautiful lawns outside: all for the benefit of the workers.. In   
   national socialist Germany, no child labor was allowed as it still was   
   in other European countries.   
      
      
   And finally, although I could still go on for a while, I would like to   
   mention that on express orders from Hitler himself, it was strictly   
   forbidden to use corporal punishment in the army. He was of the   
   opinion that in was incompatible with the honor of a German to be   
   punished by such degrading means.   
      
    That was the Germany I grew up in, and I am glad that I did.   
      
      
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